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Pope Resigned!!!!!!!!!

I thought a Pope has to remain in his position if I am correct? At least that's so if one doesn't commit major mistake. First thing first, sex scandal among the church cannot be considered his fault, for which have been long existing before his reign.

It's fairly rare though, only three (according to that page anyhow) had done so.

According to the Vatican, he's quitting due to the infirmity of advanced age - including a stroke. Apparently he actually wanted to resign his cardinalship (cardinality?) for a while for health reasons, but kept on at the urging of the previous Pope.

I like better (much more) the previous one, the poland one.
Hope the next one is more open.

The vatican has being making fighting AIDS harder, and other stuff, If the next one is more open to new ideas, some lives will be saved.

We don't have real big problems with the vatican. The bigger problem whe have now is a war "religion vs womens" in all the third world countries, ... with huge rape rates. Part of it is the lame view of womens that islam have, another one is customs,...
We have tamed christianism, but the next target is much harder: tame the islam.

No I don't think we have to be honest not letting Woman be Bishops and there appaling treatment over in Africa, the Gay Marriage issue and the whole sex scandal means there as backwards as they were and not much has changed or will change except if they just radically decide to be different.

I doubt it's anything quite that serious. The most likely explanation is simply his age. Nowadays, the pope is expected to frequently travel across the globe, no matter how old he is. I'd imagine that has to take a toll on his health. Even more so since, unlike John Paul II, Benedict never seemed to be very comfortable with his role. He struck me as the kind of person who would much rather sit at home and work in private, instead of acting as the official spokesperson of one of the largest institutions in the world.

The interesting question is what his successor will be like. I don't think we'll see any drastic policy changes. The liberal voices within the Catholic Church are mostly found among the priests and nuns, whereas the cardinals tend to be fairly conservative. Not to mention Benedict himself generally held the same opinions as his predecessor, JPII. What we might see is a non-European pope, most likely one from Africa or South America.

"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it."

I was very disappointed that the news scrambled to find as many devout Christians in positions of power as they could to tell us how terrible and upsetting this news was. Come on, give us an atheist, or at least another religion!

I was very disappointed that the news scrambled to find as many devout Christians in positions of power as they could to tell us how terrible and upsetting this news was. Come on, give us an atheist, or at least another religion!

A chorus of "we don't care" doesn't make good news.

NalanoH. Wildmoon
Director of the Friends of Nalano PAC
Attorney at Lawl
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen